How do you cope with pain?
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How do you cope with pain?
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Every single person goes through a lot of serious pain in some way shape or form. Health or money or marriage or family or poverty - something is always going on. Either here, now, or in the past, or in the future as surely as the sun rises.
How do you cope with it? Ignore it? Drinking? Buying stuff? Getting furious? Not thinking about it? Not coping? trying to fix the unfixable (sometimes) God? Trying to be successful in other areas? Does any of it actually work and diminish the pain or do you just learn to accept the unacceptable?
Every single person goes through a lot of serious pain in some way shape or form. Health or money or marriage or family or poverty - something is always going on. Either here, now, or in the past, or in the future as surely as the sun rises.
How do you cope with it? Ignore it? Drinking? Buying stuff? Getting furious? Not thinking about it? Not coping? trying to fix the unfixable (sometimes) God? Trying to be successful in other areas? Does any of it actually work and diminish the pain or do you just learn to accept the unacceptable?
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How do you cope with pain?
I've adopted a new policy of just not letting things get to me. I usually just play video games - gives me something to concentrate on for a while, and I have fun at the same time.
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How do you cope with pain?
Physical pain, well, it takes a lot of that to bother me.
Mental - I just find a good friend, and blow a gasket. They usually get a good laugh out of my ranting, and by the time I'm done, I not only feel better, but usually have a solution to the problem in mind.
Mental - I just find a good friend, and blow a gasket. They usually get a good laugh out of my ranting, and by the time I'm done, I not only feel better, but usually have a solution to the problem in mind.
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How do you cope with pain?
Originally posted by DainBramage
Physical pain, well, it takes a lot of that to bother me.
Mental - I just find a good friend, and blow a gasket. They usually get a good laugh out of my ranting, and by the time I'm done, I not only feel better, but usually have a solution to the problem in mind.
Physical pain, well, it takes a lot of that to bother me.
Mental - I just find a good friend, and blow a gasket. They usually get a good laugh out of my ranting, and by the time I'm done, I not only feel better, but usually have a solution to the problem in mind.
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How do you cope with pain?
Pain is a sore subject for me(no pun intended)! I have had physical pain for a few years now in my left knee and ankle and can't afford to do anything about it.I invest heavily in tylenol and other pain meds to try to ease the pain........some.
As far as mental pain(stress)! I am a single parent with two teenage daughters that soley rely on me. I also have my own
business that takes its toll on me as well.
I guess i'll blow a gasket someday but for now i just deal with it but there are some days that are real tough.
As far as mental pain(stress)! I am a single parent with two teenage daughters that soley rely on me. I also have my own
business that takes its toll on me as well.
I guess i'll blow a gasket someday but for now i just deal with it but there are some days that are real tough.
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How do you cope with pain?
Physical pain is something I am getting used to - Adhesive Capsulitis in the right side is something that hurts, big time. I just recognize it hurts, and unless doing exercises, I stop doing what hurts... They gave me a prescription, but I don't do drugs. 
Mental pain, anquish or despair. I do not have terribly much of that. If someone dies, I can deal with that easily, if someone is hurt, I can deal with that easily, If someone falls out with me, so what, if someone gets mad with me, so what.. If there is a disaster somewhere, I get somewhat disturbed, but I just look to see what I personally can do, and if there is nothing, I accept that.
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Mental pain, anquish or despair. I do not have terribly much of that. If someone dies, I can deal with that easily, if someone is hurt, I can deal with that easily, If someone falls out with me, so what, if someone gets mad with me, so what.. If there is a disaster somewhere, I get somewhat disturbed, but I just look to see what I personally can do, and if there is nothing, I accept that.
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How do you cope with pain?
Stress? I bottle it all up inside. I figure I'll have a heart attack somewhere down the road because of it.
One way I relax is by grabbing my camera equipment, jumping in the truck and getting out of town for a day. I usually go to a location where there aren't people for miles and miles.
One way I relax is by grabbing my camera equipment, jumping in the truck and getting out of town for a day. I usually go to a location where there aren't people for miles and miles.
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How do you cope with pain?
Lord,
Give me the strength to change the things I can...
Accept the things I cant...
And the wisdom to know the difference...
It took me awhile but I learned to try to live it...
Give me the strength to change the things I can...
Accept the things I cant...
And the wisdom to know the difference...
It took me awhile but I learned to try to live it...
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From: inver grove heights MN
How do you cope with pain?
physical pain- when i was 14 i learned how to "walk it off" long story id rather not get into.
STRESS..... thats the one that really gets me. and i deal with alot of it- alot of the people in my life add to it but since they are family i cant turn my back on them. plus i run my own business so obviously money is ALWAYS and issue.
i either totally tune out the problem, pretend it doesnt exsist, OR four wheeling or a day at the gun range really relieve me.
guys can get me angry real fast, which at that point ill speak up and get in their faces. women though- it takes alot for them to offend me and if they do i just walk it off, take a stroll and forget about it.
and for those really bad situations- ( deaths, terrible days ) a case of beer puts my mind to rest for a night.
STRESS..... thats the one that really gets me. and i deal with alot of it- alot of the people in my life add to it but since they are family i cant turn my back on them. plus i run my own business so obviously money is ALWAYS and issue.
i either totally tune out the problem, pretend it doesnt exsist, OR four wheeling or a day at the gun range really relieve me.
guys can get me angry real fast, which at that point ill speak up and get in their faces. women though- it takes alot for them to offend me and if they do i just walk it off, take a stroll and forget about it.
and for those really bad situations- ( deaths, terrible days ) a case of beer puts my mind to rest for a night.
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From: Thomson, GA
How do you cope with pain?
The physial pain, I too walk off. Mental pain i don't have much of, because it stays bottled up, and then sometimes I crank my marshall and blow my eardrums out. I'll play my guitar for about an hour, and when I can no longer hear, what ever was bothering me before is no longer an issue. If it is late and everyone is in bed, I can always pay a visit to FTE and get kick out of some political threads.
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From: Dededo, Guam
How do you cope with pain?
I usually don't let things bother me. Most problems are only short term and can be fixed. Off roading and video games help me take my mind off things if I am feelin blue. Although I like to drink, I don't believe in hitting the bottle to drink my problems away.
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How do you cope with pain?
I do not worry about things I have no control over (come to think of it, I don't worry about things I DO have control over). I look back with the clear vision of hindsight at bad things that happened in my life and see them as bumps in the road that lead to the blessed, happy man I am today. I truly believe that we are not given a mountain we can't climb, go through or go around.
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